Day 11 （八月十二日）

你们好！

We had a fun and busy day at Startalk! We can't believe we only have 4 more days left!

To begin, level 1 students learned all about family today, this includes pets ;) They learned very important grammar lessons that are crucial when describing amounts of people/things. To specify, whenever someone wants to communicate that they have four family members, there must be a measure word indicating the category. For example, to describe pets a student will say "yi zhi gou"which means one dog; the word underlined is the measure word for pets. An interesting thing about China is that the residents are getting richer and investing in pets; therefore, many pet stores are currently opening. : )

Students' work displayed for all to see in the classrooms! 

Level 2 students discussed vocabulary and lessons from yesterday including gift culture and marketing ideas for their olive oil business. The new lesson consisted of forms of travel, hotels, restaurants, along with household vocab. They are continuing their formulation of their business plan and effectively preparing for Saturday :)

Finally, this afternoon they got to practice tai chi in uniform and also practiced Chinese dance, the link to their practice can be found here.. enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViS1f5pMdz8

明天见！